there is a hefty price tag coming from sandy. now we have learned the details as folks in some town get a look at the destruction after the super storm hit. according to new york governor andrew cuomo, sandy cost the state more than $40 billion. billions more than the previous estimates. and in new jersey, fema reports it's already paid out more than a quarter of a billion dollars to residents. many of those folks are in some of the hardest hit towns like point pleasant where four feet of sand covered the streets like a snow drift. as workers remove that sand, folks are finally getting a look at all the destruction beneath it rick leventhal with the news life in point pleasant tonight. how different is it a month later? >> not much, shepard. much of the ocean front is still a wreck. including the southern half of the board walk and most of the buildings here like the white sands hotel behind us. a storm surge racked the ocean front bar and restaurant bringing waves and sand dunes into that space. also swamping the ground floor ro